Subject: Re: nfs sync, slow
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 12/07/2000 17:16:26
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:36:49AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> NFS v2 was UDP, and Berkeley introduced a TCP extension for NFS v2.
> 
> NFS v3 natively supports both TCP and UDP, and the default is TCP, IIRC.

On NetBSD we switched the default to UDP because of the problem with TCP
mounts: if the TCP connection is broken (link down for too long, server
reboot, etc) then the client doesn't find the NFS server and needs to be
rebooted.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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